Cosmic Consciousness Pose (December 2001)

Here I stand.
Balanced, poised between heaven and earth.
Aligned, held strong, open wide.
Absorbing, deep into the bones that bless me.
Allowing me to stand,
To move, to flow.
In the sturdiness of the bones
rests the gifts of softness.
the gifts of the flow.

Here I stand, balanced.
Poised between now and then.
Poised between practice and beyond.
Poised between movement and stillness.
Poised.
Tiny, triangle of my feet a tripod.
To balance here I must remain true.
True to my alignment.
True to my core.
True to who I am becoming.

Here I stand perched
between instability and stability.
Finding my true nature,
finding my center.
Standing strong on the edge,
coming home to who I am.

– Judy Tretheway